True crime stories & great mysteries

Mystery & True Crime Stories is a website about the most puzzling mysteries of the past, as well as controversial theories. Here you'll find the most puzzling crime mysteries, the greatest mysteries of history, some of the interesting controversial theories and unexplained phenomena. Of course, some of them might be hoaxes, some of them might have a trivial explanation, but it is always a fun to stumble upon a puzzle or mystery that still needs to be solved.


True crime stories

D.B. Cooper mystery

D.B. Cooper

On November 24, 1971, a very unusual crime took place - on board of a passenger plane, an unknown man demanded ransom and two parachutes, and otherwise he will detonate the bomb in his briefcase...


Kidnapping of Lindbergh baby mystery

Kidnapping of Lindbergh baby

The kidnapping of Charles Augustus Lindbergh Jr, son of famous American aviator Charles Lindbergh, was one of the first big trials that gathered massive media coverage. The 20-months-old...


Zodiac killer mystery

Zodiac killer

The Zodiac killer is an unknown serial killer that was operating in California between 1968 and 1974. He killed 5 people and injured 2 more, at least those are confirmed victims of the Zodiac...


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Great mysteries

Loch Ness monster mystery

Loch Ness monster

Supposedly large unknown animal that lives in the Scottish lake Loch Ness. There were several reports from people around the lake that saw the horse-like head or the back with few humps.


Oak Island mystery mystery

Oak Island mystery

A small island on the coast of Nova Scotia, Canada, became famous after the discovery of a strange well-like hole in the ground with a bottom made of wood. At least that what it looked...


Glenn Miller disappearance mystery

Glenn Miller disappearance

Glenn Miller was one of the most recognizable band leaders in the swing era, his music is still admired today. At the peak of his career, he decided to join the World War 2 effort and...


Easter Island mystery

Easter Island

Rapa Nui, the Easter Island, still hides many mysteries - from the origins of its inhabitants to rongorongo script and famous moai statues.





Controversial theories

9/11 attacks mystery

9/11 attacks

Two planes full of passengers hit the twin towers of World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, starting one of the most mysterious conspiracy theories in history. At 8:46 AM, five...


Korean Air Lines Flight 007 mystery

Korean Air Lines Flight 007

On September 1, 1983 Boeing 747 suddenly flew into Soviet Union airspace over Kamtchatka Peninsula. It was Korean Air Lines Flight 007 and soon Soviet fighters were sent to intercept the intruder...


JFK assassination mystery

JFK assassination

American president John Fitzgerald Kennedy was shot while visiting Dallas, Texas on November 22, 1963. The official version is that he was shot by a single, obviously insane, shooter...


Smolensk air crash mystery

Smolensk air crash

During a trip to annual ceremonies marking the anniversary of the Katyn Massacre (when during the World War II over 20,000 Polish officers, previously kept captive, were killed by NKVD...



Unexplained phenomena

Beast of Gevaudan mystery

Beast of Gevaudan

Wolf-like creature (or creatures) that terrorized the French province of Gevaudan in the 18th century. Over 100 people were killed by the Beast of Gevaudan, but still, we have no idea...


UFO sightings mystery

UFO sightings

When we talk about UFO, we often forget that UFO stands for Unidentified Flying Object, which not necessarily means that those objects have to be made by humans or aliens - they just...


Amityville horror house mystery

Amityville horror house

An average house at the end of the road in Amityville proved to be a crime scene, where the whole DeFeo family was killed. Years later, the new inhabitants of the house had to ask for...


Dyatlov Pass incident mystery

Dyatlov Pass incident

Dyatlov Pass incident involves the mysterious deaths of 9 tourists in the northern Ural Mountains on the night of February 2, 1959. The incident happened at night and there were no...



Crime and mystery movies

U Turn 2016 mystery movie

U Turn 2016

A young reporter follows a story of people, who remove the blocks separating two lanes on the flyover to make a U turn and avoid traffic, which causes later accidents and death of other people.


Radioland Murders 1994 mystery movie

Radioland Murders 1994

During the live radio show, someone is killing the people involved and it is up to a staff writer to solve the mystery and win back his, soon to be, ex-wife.


Citizen X 1995 mystery movie

Citizen X 1995

True story of of Soviet first and most terrifying serial killers - Andrei Chikatilo.


Murder on the Orient Express 1974 mystery movie

Murder on the Orient Express 1974

Hercules Poirot travels on the Orient Express when one of the passengers is found dead with multiple stab wounds. This could be the most complicated case in career of the Belgian detective.



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